In the 1979 revolution in Iran, the world thought it had found a liberating hero when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came out of exile in France to lead that nation.
The Emotiv EPOC headset - the first Brain Computer Interface (BCI) device for the gaming market is the technology behind the revolution -- and the company claims to have already mastered thought control.
Victor Hugo placed this thought into our collective consciousness in reflection of the days of the French Revolution and the Napleonic era, but it has since been such translated and paraphrased from the literal statement many times over in reference to innovation.
You cannot understand the Cuban Revolution, with its elements from the Age of Enlightenment and modern thought, only from the perspective of Marxist thought, or from the European revolutionary thought.